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MAIL TRIBUNE, Mtdfortf, Or. Sunday, May 24, 1959 MEDFORDt&TRIBUKE "Xveryon to Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Dnlly except Saturday by MTJJFCMD PRINTING CO. 33 North 1i St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager CEPALD LATHAM Business Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR Managing Rditor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medforrt Oregon under Act of March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai 1 In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.29 Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routts. Dail7 and Sunday 1 year $18.00 uauy ano bunuay l mo. l-su Carrier and Dealers c opy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson county United Press International Fun Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST -HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle, Portland St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASfebcSATk C7 vV -T1 Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Mar 24. 1949 (Tuesday) The Medford Trail Riders' benefit horseshow is a success. The flood of letters to the editor from children urging approval of the bond issue for completion of Hawthorne park's swimming pool swells to a veritable torrent. 20 YEARS AGO May 24. 1939 (Wednesday) Free movies on ducks and other feathered creatures are offered by John C. Hunting ton, New York, president of Ducks, Unlimited. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The fair sex is now wearing large brimmed hats, some of which have more acreage than their skirts." 30 YEARS AGO May 24, 1929 (Friday) Rogue river fish are faced with extinction through com mercial exploitation, local sportsmen are told. The city council agrees to Issuing new licenses to Front st. establishments, "if they behave and sell no more bit ters." 40 YEARS AGO May 24. 1919 (Saturday) Four are arrested for snagging salmon at Gold Ray dam. The city council plans to bar horses from the new city auto camp on Bear creek. 3n ar-KW-JI I r. 50 YEARS AGO "' May 24, 1909 (Monday) Construction of the P. and E. railroad begins at Eagle Point. Tomorrow is Clean-Up day . in Medford, by mayoral proc- i lamation. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Who wrote "The Song of Hiawatha"? 2. What animal spends al most its whole life hanging : upside down from tree branch es? 3. What amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery? 4. When a cow gets up, which end rises first: 5. What common liquid ex pands upon solidifying? . 6. Do the arteries, or the ! veins, of the body carry fresh blood outward from the j heart? 7. Which of these States has the longer coastline? Florida ; or California? 8. With which Democratic politician do you associate the "Brown Derby"? 9. What ex - Presidents of the United States are living? 1 1 0. The names of two States in the U.S. begin with the let ; ter "T"; name them. Answers: 1. Henry Longfel- low. 2. Sloth. 3. Thirteenth. 4. The rear end. 5. Water. 6. Arteries. 7. Florida. 8. Alfred ; E- Smith. 9. Herbert Hoover, Harry S. Truman. 10. Texas, Tennessee. Musical Evening Dr. Billy Blackstone, in a letter which appear ed ori this page Friday, put into words something we have often thought. This is, that the young people of today are far better than many people, including the young ones, often think. Dr. Blackstone's emphasis was on . the Boy Scout program, from Cubs through Explorers. But the same message came to us again Thurs day evening, which we spent listening to singing by students at Hedrick Junior high school, and Medford High. e 4 1X7E STARTED at the junior high, first inspect ' ing an amazing display of science, shop and home economics projects, then settling down to listen to the Seventh Grade Chorus. . These , young voices, not all of them trained, by any means, still blend well, and the youngsters really put their hearts into the songs. The overall effect is fresh and happy.! : The Hedrick Choir, composed of Eighth and Ninth graders, exhibited a rather greater degree of proficiency, as could be expected. They sing slightly more difficult songs, show a greater re sponsiveness to direction, and a greater sureness in their singing. AT THE conclusion of this concert, we made a quick trip across town and sneaked into the high school auditorium for the last part of a concert under way there. The Medford High school Senior Choir pro vided the highlight of the evening. Seldom have we heard a comparable group of young people show greater mastery of their music, better tech nique, or more obvious joy in what they were doing. ' We have heard this choir in prior years, and each year it seems to get better, surer, more disciplined, and more varied in repertoire. e 'THE CHOIR'S director, Lynn Sjolund, deserves 1 the applause of patrons of the school district for his work in welding these singers together into a cohesive and outstanding musical group. We would have only two minor suggestions, and perhaps they are nothing but carping. First, it seemed to us that the program was rather too heavily loaded with pieces, many of them of a religious nature, which were totally unfamiliar to the audience. And second, we missed any tribute to Oregon's Centennial year. (We'd still like to hear the Choir sing "Down the Oregon Trail," one of the all-time favorites of the Eugene Gleemen.) All in all it was an evening we shall remember long and pleasurably. The i.1 i xeceive is suineunng mat win stay witn mem al ways, making their lives fuller and richer. E.A. The School Patrols ' In the same vein, one could well nnnder nn the work of the school safety patrols. These youngsters, who spend hours guarding street crossings their classmates use en route to ana irom school, are performing a real and important civic function. The banauet Fridav evening at which thev were honored was really ii ! i i i tne gratitude wnicn should be felt toward them. They may be young, but they're good citizens. And the work they do is making them better ones. E.A. New Bridge Needed We're all for the plan to extend 10th street across Bear creek by means of another bridge. There are several reasons why it should be done, and be done this year. First of all, the new bridge is needed. Med ford always has been hampered by both Bear creek and the railroad cutting through it, north to south, and has never had enough east-west arterial streets. Such a bridge would provide one more such thoroughfare. CECONDLY, we believe the bridge should be built before construction of the new freeway begins. It is to be assumed that the highway depart ment will give all possible consideration to Med ford's needs in the way of arterial streets, but we'd still feel more comfortable if the new route is in before the state starts throwing dirt and concrete around. With this bridge, and with the extension of Melrose' avenue to join with Barnett road, the city proper will have McAndrews road, Jackson street, Main street, 10th street, 12th street, and Melrose-Barnett or six crosstown routes. As its growth continues, it is going to need them, too, for much of the growth will be on the east side to say nothing of the needs of the two hospitals, Rogue Valley manor, and the other developments which can be expected. E.A. Which Laws sometime create oddities. For instance, the Phoenix-Talent consolida tion proposal was defeated, because the election was conducted under the laws pertaining to boundary board elections, when each district must approve.. . However, if it had been 'conducted under the school reoreranization law. if. wmild Iiqvp nawo for that v law specifies v.uunccu tugcuicr, witn me training these students mi i ii i only a small token of - . . Law? that all votes will be majority ruling. Dennis the 010 0U EYE? THINK OF VOU C0ULQ4 MADE WITH Washington Report By WILLIAM THE FDR IMAGE Washington-The backers of Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota for the 1960 1 D e m o c ratic inomina tion 1 have deter- .- : 3 mmca uu uie biggest gam- ; ble of the pre- c o n v e n t ion campaign. Though they rlr not. mt to William S. . ... . , White put the matter quite so strongly, even in pri vate, the plain fact is this: they are staking everything on one roll of the dice. Knowing quite, will that their strategy has its perils, they have decided to present Senator Humphrey as "the" Roosevelt. New Dealer in the field of aspirants. Their risks are plain. Their strategy is, in military terms like committing every last resource to a mas sive counterattack in full awareness that if it fails the whole war is . lost then and there. But their candid conclusion is that for Humphrey it must be all or nothing. -. . ERANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT is 14 years in his grave and this is a. .new political world with different problems from those he met so long ago. Since his death a spirit "of accommodation, of modera tion, has swept the Democratic party. The old Roosevelt New Dealers are for the most part no longer in power anywhere, either in public office or in the party. Too, Mr. Roosevelt of course made powerful ene mies with long memories. The image of Humphrey as the man who seeks frankly to be the heir to FDR will, beyond doubt, stir up these enemies again. And, finally, the policy of the Humphrey strategists de liberately stares into the bright face of danger in two other ways: 1. It flatly and directly challenges to combat another former President who is also a liberal Democratic leader, Harry S. Truman. (Mr. Truman is plainly, if not offi cially, backing Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri for the nomination.) 2. It necessarily will draw a sharper line be tween those party old-timers who are basically "Truman men" and those who are "Roosevelt men." EVEN so, the Humphrey men reckon that on balance they have more to gain than to lose, and perhaps they do, in deed. A certain New Deal cast Si. . Matter of Fact THE NELSON-MASS Budapest, Hungary - In the Coronation Church, the parish church of the ancient fortress ""H of "Rnrla that still towers above Buda pest, they sang Haydn's "Nelson-Mass" last Sunday. It is called Nelson - Mass, the legend runs, because t i j 1 -lostpn Aisop -iNeisons vic tory at Aboukir Bay is cele brated by the blood-tingling flourish of trumpets introduc ing the Benedictus. What with the trumpets and the fid dles and the superb Italinate choir, it must be admitted that the Nelson-Mass did not sound like religious music to the un tutored American ear. Yet the huge old church was filled as only Polish and Hungarian churches are filled nowadays. Long before the mass began, every seat was taken. In the aisles and en trance, latecomers young and Menace ALL THE LEAtoMADE THIS iVATgR?' S. WHITE was bound in any case to be put on Humphrey. His rec ord is essentially a New Deal one. He is an official of the New Deal splinter movement called Americans for Demo cratic Action. And his cam paign manager is one of the most authentic of the New Dealers, James H. Rowe Jr. Mr. Rowe, now a Washing ton attorney, was a member of the inner-inner FDR brain trust as a White House assist ant to the President. He has remained absolutely and un- apologetically faithful to Roo sevelt doctrines in all the sub sequent years in which party dogma and party memories have generally shifted away from the Roosevelt era. Moreover, the late Presi dent's widow,' Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, has been saying markedly good things of Humphrey-kinder things, by far, than she Mas said for any other hopeful. Efforts, indeed, are now being made to bring Mrs. Roosevelt and also former Gov. Averell Harriman of New York openly into Hum phrey's support. POWE himself, oddly A enough, did not initiate the decision of the Humphrey camp to run the Senator as a mid-century FDR. He has, however, concluded it is a wise decision and it will form the basis for all his future sorties in seeking to gather up con vention delegates for Hum phrey. . The analysis of the Hum phrey people is about this: Hu bert Humphrey never would be given the nomination any how by a convention deter mined on a "moderate" can didate. Such a convention, in common sense, would turn in stead to Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, Senator Symington or Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts. Humphrey would never, in any case, be acceptable to the convention's conservatives -and certainly never to those from the South. Thus, far more even than any of his rivals, he is barred from play ing any kind of waiting and hoping game. He must sharply and clearly-and early and often and bluntly - identify himself and seek the sort of delegate strength really open to him. He must do this even at the cost of alienating other, and more iffy, strength. It is the case of the New Deal bird in hand, or more or less in hand, against X number of possibly non-New Deal birds in the bush. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) By Joseph AIsop old, workers and peasants and artisans, kneeled or stood through the long service. Even when Haydn's 18th century imagination sent the fiddles and sopranos on their wildest flights, one felt the faith and fervor! But the great outpour ing of passion came at the close, when the whole crowd ed congregation joined in the Hungarian anthem, the hymn of the Magyar people, which Hungarians have sung to gether for more than a cen tury . THE POINT about this mass at the Coronation Church is quite simple. In brief, this is all that the great majority of the Hungarian people real ly believe in any longer. The system they live under, the government that rules over them, the future that the gov ernment promises, are all duly accepted. . But they do not command belief or hope. It is a curious fact, yet it really seems to be a fact, that belief and hope were strong er when the lot of the Hun- Communications - Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although nder cer tain circumstances tne use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words No Argument , To the Editor: Referring to the Phoenix election on school consolidation. There was at no time any argument between myself and the election board or any member of that board before, during, or after the election. The deputy sheriff was there to uphold my legal right to sit as a poU watcher. Fred Wilcox, Camp Baker rd., -Phoenix. Successful Convention I To the Editor: The state convention of the Oregon Op tometric Association, held in Medford May 15-17, was , a great success, due in large measure to the hard work of the members and auxiliary of the Southern Oregon Opto metric society. Too often little public recognition is accorded local convention delegates for their contribution of time and effort to, insure that visitors to the area are given a favor able impression of southern Oregon. Perhaps this letter will in some way express to them the appreciation of the community and convention committee. Representatives in the Med ford area who assisted are to be commended. They include Dr. and Mrs. George S. Jen nings, Dr. and Mrs. Robert Urie, Mrs. August Glutsch, Dr. Robert Harland. Dr. and Mrs. Tom Urie, Mrs. August Glutsch, Dr. Robert Harland, Dr. and Mrs. Tom Anderson, Dr. Frank Freeburger, Dr. and Mrs. Richard Nelson, and Dr and Mrs. William J. Thomp son. Backing up the work of the local planners with the full support of the news media, the Chamber of Commerce, and the staff of the Rogue Valley Country club, site of the con vention. Without this co-oper ation 'the convention would have been less than the suc cess it proved to be. August W. Glutsch, O.D., Medford, General Chairman O.O.A. Convention Committee garian people was far more terrible, in the iron times of Rakosi and Stalin. Precisely because power was displayed with naked ruthlessness, pre cisely because of the cruelty of the grim policies pursued, they seem to have inspired a curious masochistic mysti que, at least in certain sectors of the youth and the intelli gentsia. It was the same in Poland, where the most rigid ly Stalinist intellectuals are now the most strenuous "re visionists." This mystique collapsed when Khrushchev broke the Stalin image " in his famous speech, with consequences in Hungary that the whole world remembers. Nothing has ' re placed the lost mystique, al though the blood that was shed was not shed altogether m vain if you apply the com mon economic tests of our age. pfCONOMICALLY, the Hun garian people are substan tially better off under Kadar than they were under Rakosi and somewhat better off than under Imre Nagy. The im provement began even before the great explosion here. The trading system by which Sta lin's Russia levied a heavy tribute in Hungary was aban doned soon after the old ty rant's death, for instance. Now, moreover, the rate of state investment is far more bearable. The investment plan is no longer insanely over balanced in favor of an arti ficial ultra - heavy industry. Ordinary consumer's goods are being produced in reason able quantities. Above all, the tremendous burden of defense expenditure that Hungary was formerly required to carry, has now been reduced by about four-fifths for ob vious political reasons. All these changes mean, in effect, that the state is taking less for itself and giving more to the people. This city, with its spectacular situation astride the Danube and all its possibilities of beauty, is still sadly gray and drab. But there are goods in the shops. The people have 'decent shoes and decent clothes. Except for the old and the tragic survivors of the former ruling class, no one goes hungry. rpHE GOVERNMENT'S con scicus effort to improve the conditions of life in Hun gary is the direct result of the defeated revolution. "Something must be done." they said in the Kremlin, and this was what was done. There is no solid evidence, either, that the renewed drive to collectivize Hungarian ag riculture means a change in policy. The propaganda about the new rural collectives being en tirely voluntary is - propa ganda. But brute force . has not been used in the old way. Today & Tomorrow By Walter PROGRESS AT GENEVA As a public spectacle, the Geneva conference is still in the prelude to the negotia tions. But this prelude is of great impor tance. For it is dealing with a momentous qu estion: Shall the Four Powers as sume, when they come to Walter Lippmann negotiate about Berlin and other mat ters, that for all practical pur poses the partition . of Ger many is permanent? Mr. Gromyko's taqtical moves and his proposals have been designed to emphasize the partition by building up the prestige of the East Ger man state.- Mr. Gromyko knows as well as we do that his package of proposals is not going to be accepted. But as in the incident of the seat ing of the East German dele gates at the conference, he has been working to create the impression that the West,, which is not unanimous about German reunification, is ac cepting the partition. The task of the Westerners has been to prevent the com ing negotiations about Berlin from taking place with all the world assuming that the idea of reunification has been scut tled. rpHE ISSUE was stated can--- didly Tuesday by the French Foreign Minister, M. Couve de Murville. Dealing with the Soviet proposal for a peace treaty with the two Germanys, he said that "such a treaty would do nothing to solve the problems facing us; or rather, it would do one thing only: set the Four Pow ers' seal on the division of Germany." He came immediately to the crucial point: "Even if . . . reunification is not yet possible, we see no reason at all for taking part in a solemn international act which would preclude it forever, and could have no other result than drive the German people to despair." The Westerners know, of course, that their package plan is not going to be ac cepted by the Soviet Union and they know too that the reunification of Germany is not possible in the foreseeable future. Moreover, it is no secret that in the Western al liance there is powerful op position to German unifica tion, and that, as one French man has put it: "It is like this. We all pray to go to heaven but not too soon." Nevertheless, the Western powers are right to insist that nothing be done at Geneva or at the summit to PRECLUDE the idea of eventual reunifi cation. Thus, M. Couve de Murville is undoubtedly right m saying that if the Allies accept partition it would drive the German people, or at least some of the boldest among them, to despair. The ground will be prepared for clandestine conspiracy be tween West German and East German nationalists. Out of that might come anything - a German civil war, or a Ger man deal with Russia. But in any event it would mean the end of Western influence in a reunited Germany. - ONCE the Geneva confer ence has established the principle that there will be no "solemn international act which would preclude it (Ger man reunification) forever," the prelude wiU be over. The time will have come for ne gotiation about Berlin. Here there appears to exist a ser ious problem of Allied policy. There are those who believe that the West should stand firm on the status quo, refus ing any change of any kind. They regard any change as a change for the worse. They do not believe our position There are many practical reasons why small plot peas ant farming is undesirable in Hungary, which has always been farmed in large estates. The state is naying heavily to make the new collectives suc ceed. For these reasons, the re-collectivization does not seem to foreshadow another general plunge into misery in the Stalinist manner. All in all. three years after the young boys fought the Soviet tanks from street xo street, life in Hungary goes on with most of the outward appearances of normal life in other countries. The trouble is under the surface. The trouble, in fact, is the total absence of belief, witnout commanding a certain meas ure of belief, at least among its own cadres, no government can put down permanent roots. That is Janos Kadar's problem - which is directly linked to the Berlin crisis ana the current meeting at Geneva to talk about Berlin. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.. Lippmann can be improved but only that it can be weakened. This is at least the first attitude of the Bonn and the Paris govern ments. They profess to think that if we stand firmly on the absolute negative, Mr. Khrushchev wUl give up and give in. v This is an arguable posi tion. But it can be argued better if it is not accompanied by the innuendo that the Ber lin and the Americans, who want to negotiate with the Soviets, are less brave and less noble and less realistic than are the Germans and the French. It would serve the cause of Allied unity greatly if the innuendo were omitted from the off-the-record brief ings. THE OTHER point of view holds that the Western position in West Berlin is weak and needs to be streng thened, and that it should be a prime object of Western policy to strengthen and im prove the position in Berlin. The weakness of the Western position is notorious. West Berlin is an island within a Communist state, and this is land is defended against in vasion and conquest by the threat, which only the United States could carry out, of waging a total nuclear war. .. This is an adequate defense against the conquest of West Berlin. But it is not a defense at all against harassment - just enough to become intoler ably annoying and not enough to justify a total nuclear war. The morale of the people of West Berlin cannot be count ed upon to endure forever harassment for which there is no remedy. The Weshas, therefore, a vital interest in negotiating a new statue for Berlin, one which spells out its rights of access and reaffirms Its right to a military presence In West Berlin, and is the formal com mitment of the Soviet Union and of the East European states. TN MY view, we shall miss the bus if we . do not get a new agreement about .Ber lin. If it is possible, this agree ment should be worked out before there is a summit meet ing, or at the, least there should be a good concrete private understanding that it will be worked out at the summit. v Moreover, It should be our object to get an agreement on Berlin before the Soviet Union makes a separate peace treaty with East Germany, The agreement should exist so that before there is; any peace treaty it is already an inter national obligation of East Germany as well as of the Soviet Union. If Mr. Khrush chev wiU negotiate such an agreement now on the way to the summit it will be an impressive demonstration that he means to negotiate serious ly when he gets to the summit, (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. ' In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Odd note in the news: Cannibals in the Purari Hills area of New Guinea (far down in the South Seas) raid ed the village of Matuari and killed and ATE Patrolman Obu, the village policeman. , We have municipal prob lems here in the U.S.A. But, thank fortune, that isn't one of them. SPEAKING of problems: Dr. Paul Benton, an Okla homa child psychiatrist, told a pedriatric society meeting in Memphis the other day that we need to turn back the rear ing of children to parents in stead of giving them so much "expert" advice. He added: "You can't rear children by a book of rules. Every child is an INDIVIDUAL." GOING literary for a mo ment, George Noel Gor don, Lord Bycon, said a cen tury and a quarter ago in his Don Juan: "The antique Persians taught three useful things "To draw the bow, to ride, and SPEAK THE TRUTH." Whether he draws a bow or rides a horse I don't know. But I'm inclined to think that in his talk to the Memphis pediatrists Dr. Benton was speaking the truth. Children can't be reared successfully by mass production techniques. The communists tried it in the early days of the Bolshe vik Revolution. They took the children away from the par ents and put 'em . in institu tions. They had to give it up and bring parents back into the picture. Since that was done, .Russia is going ahead faster. POTLUCK (By M-T. Staff and Contributors) Our society editor warn sTl wet Friday afternoon. we mean this litpraiw with no disparagement. A small but heavy thimnVr. storm passed over the down town area snortlv before a o'clock. Rain fell in buckets. And, due to a defective drain pipe, it started coming through the ceiling right over OS's desk, pouring down in a veritable torrent, and splash ing an over ner. A hastily organized nna squadron of fellow workers grabbed tyDewriter. tahl nnz-l chair and rushed them to an adjoining room. wastebasket were pressed Into use to con tain the worst of the flow, lights and heaters were switched off to avoid short circuits, and the Biles anrJ piles of papers, magazines, books and assorted potpourri on Potpourri's desk wera hur- rieaiy removed. Desks and boolrr-asa shoved aside and, as the tor rent slowed. were brought out and things uoiea up. . OS, in her forced but tem porary exile from the familiar corner, looked on the cheerful side of it. It offered a chance to get her stuff sorted out and the excess thrown away, she declared. H. P. Jewett. the veteran school superintendent in district 6C, recently was honored for his long and faithful service by a com munity celebration in Cen tral Point, A few days lat er, on a shopping visit in Medford, one man com mented on his "Centennial celebration." Mr. Jewett did one of the longest double takes on record, not realix ing until a day or two later that he was being congratu lated on 100 years of serv ice. . . Consistent readers of this column know of our addiction to the Hoover HiLite, publica tion at Hoover school. We find in it some of the freshest reporting hereabouts. In the current issue, John Knope, a scholar in grade 3R, writes as follows on "The Moon": "Do you know what is our nearest neighbor? It is the moon, about 239,000 miles away. Did you know that the moon travels around the earth could throw a ball farther, in fact you can throw a ball six times farther than on earth. Nothing happens there - no rain, no plants, no nothing. And there is no noise, and that's why my mother would like to live on the moon." - Here's another one, this ope by Mike Leever, of -grade 2C: "My family and I went to the cabin on the Rogue river. I swam in the walerdog pool. We had so much fun there, and we laid on the bear rugs. We got to eat marshmellowc. We went fishing in the riv er. I catch lots of fish.'' And one more. ' . ' This is by Martin Browne, in grade 3R: itml .1 - M j : n T j. lie xuak aajr uj. vacauuu x will call up my best friend Timmy Root. Then we might go up in the wood or dig a fox hole. We might climb a tree and put a bird feeding tray there, and we might make a boat. We might play army and have a war.", v m One of our young men has been' reading all the stories about Bear creek pollution. He looked pen sive for a while, then sat down, wrote the following, and handed it to us without comment: "Bear Creek Fools wade in where an glers fear to tread." A reader who calls himself, for these purposes, "Old Snorter," is amongjhat group of readers which finds itself in recurring disagreement with our editorial cartoonist, Her bert Block. He expressed him self on the mater thus: Come, come Herblock, give us a change. There are worse outlaws on the range. Industry can t be all to blame, . ' , Some unions bring us great er shame. Their wage demands, fringe benefits Give us the jim-jams and the fits. Inflation fever, jobs that stop Ruin hopes and plans with strike dry-rot. Sign spotted on private land during the hunting season: "No Trespassing. Survivors Will Be Prose cuted." . A gossip is one who talks to you about others. A bore is one who talks to you about himself. A brilliant conversational ist is one who talks to you about you.
